New demons : rethinking power and evil today / Simona Forti ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

By:

Forti, Simona [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804792981
0804792984

Uniform titles:

Nuovi demoni. English

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: New demonsDDC classification:

170 23

LOC classification:

BJ1404 .F6713 2014eb

Other classification:

08.38

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Contents:

The Dostoevsky paradigm -- Instincts, drives, and their vicissitudes : Nietzsche and Freud -- Ontological evil and the transcendence of evil -- Interlude : hypermoral biopolitics -- Thanatopolitics and absolute victims -- The legend of the grand inquisitor reinterpreted from below -- A different genealogy : the evil of docility -- Strategies of obedience and the ethos of freedom -- Parrhesia put to the test : practices of dissidence between eastern and western Europe -- Poor devils who "worship" life : us.

Summary: As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls ""the Dostoevsky paradigm"": the dualistic vision of

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"First published as I nuovi demoni in March 2012 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls ""the Dostoevsky paradigm"": the dualistic vision of

Translated from the Italian.

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